Shell pipeline spill fouls Nigeria farms, river
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(26 Jun 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ogoniland, Nigeria - 16 June 2023
1. Various of oil spill
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port Harcourt, Nigeria - 23 June 2023
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Fyneface Dumnamene, environmental activist:
"It is a massive spill that remained unclamped for over a week, hosing and pumping into the environment."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ogoniland, Nigeria - 16 June 2023
3. Container used for the oil spill waste
4. Oil workers extracting the spill from Okulu river
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port Harcourt, Nigeria - 23 June 2023
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Fyneface Dumnamene, environmental activist:
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"Over 300 fishermen are impacted on that particular spill. So, is a massive spill that has impacted the people, people have come in. Shell, I think they have accepted responsibility for it from what I'm now hearing. And currently, from what I heard they have clammed the spill point, but the impacts can’t go away for the next one year. It cannot go away for the next one year. It’s massive."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ogoniland, Nigeria - 16 June 2023
6. Pan of oil spill in Okulu river
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port Harcourt, Nigeria - 23 June 2023
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Fyneface Dumnamene, environmental activist:
“Comparing that kind of spill with what we have had in Ogoni before, I think well over 15-16 years that we had that kind of spill before. That was the kind of spill that happened sometime, you know, in the mid 2000 in the Bodor area that led to the payment of massive compensation by Shell. That is the kind of spill that can be likened to what we currently have on ground, it is so massive, it is so massive.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ogoniland, Nigeria - 16 June 2023
8. Oil spill in Okulu river
9. Oil workers extracting the spill from Okulu river
10. Pan of oil spill
11. Oil workers working to extract the oil spill from the Okulu River
STORYLINE:
A new oil spill at a Shell facility in Nigeria has contaminated farmland and a river, upending livelihoods in the fishing and farming communities in part of the Niger Delta, which has long endured environmental pollution caused by the oil industry.
The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, or NOSDRA, told The Associated Press that the spill came from the Trans-Niger Pipeline operated by Shell that crosses through communities in the Eleme area of Ogoniland, a region where the London-based energy giant has faced decadeslong local pushback to its oil exploration.
While spills are frequent in the region due to vandalism from oil thieves and a lack of maintenance to pipelines, according to the U.N. Environmental Program, activists call this spill that began June 11 a "major one."
It is “one of the worst in the last 16 years in Ogoniland,” said Fyneface Dumnamene, an environmental activist whose non-profit monitors spills in the Delta region.
He said tides have sent oil sheens about 10 kilometers (6 miles) further to creeks near the nation’s oil business capital, Port Harcourt.
Shell stopped production in Ogoniland more than 20 years ago amid deadly unrest from residents protesting environmental damage, but the Trans-Niger Pipeline still sends crude from oil fields in other areas through the region’s communities to export terminals.
Africa’s largest economy overwhelmingly depends on the Niger Delta’s oil resources for its earnings, but pollution from that production has denied residents access to clean water, hurt farming and fishing, and heightened the risk of violence, activists say.
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RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ogoniland, Nigeria - 16 June 2023
1. Various of oil spill
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port Harcourt, Nigeria - 23 June 2023
++VIA VIDEO LINK/QUALITY AS INCOMING++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Fyneface Dumnamene, environmental activist:
"It is a massive spill that remained unclamped for over a week, hosing and pumping into the environment."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ogoniland, Nigeria - 16 June 2023
3. Container used for the oil spill waste
4. Oil workers extracting the spill from Okulu river
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port Harcourt, Nigeria - 23 June 2023
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Fyneface Dumnamene, environmental activist:
++VIA VIDEO LINK/QUALITY AS INCOMING++
"Over 300 fishermen are impacted on that particular spill. So, is a massive spill that has impacted the people, people have come in. Shell, I think they have accepted responsibility for it from what I'm now hearing. And currently, from what I heard they have clammed the spill point, but the impacts can’t go away for the next one year. It cannot go away for the next one year. It’s massive."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ogoniland, Nigeria - 16 June 2023
6. Pan of oil spill in Okulu river
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port Harcourt, Nigeria - 23 June 2023
++VIA VIDEO LINK/QUALITY AS INCOMING++
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Fyneface Dumnamene, environmental activist:
“Comparing that kind of spill with what we have had in Ogoni before, I think well over 15-16 years that we had that kind of spill before. That was the kind of spill that happened sometime, you know, in the mid 2000 in the Bodor area that led to the payment of massive compensation by Shell. That is the kind of spill that can be likened to what we currently have on ground, it is so massive, it is so massive.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ogoniland, Nigeria - 16 June 2023
8. Oil spill in Okulu river
9. Oil workers extracting the spill from Okulu river
10. Pan of oil spill
11. Oil workers working to extract the oil spill from the Okulu River
STORYLINE:
A new oil spill at a Shell facility in Nigeria has contaminated farmland and a river, upending livelihoods in the fishing and farming communities in part of the Niger Delta, which has long endured environmental pollution caused by the oil industry.
The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, or NOSDRA, told The Associated Press that the spill came from the Trans-Niger Pipeline operated by Shell that crosses through communities in the Eleme area of Ogoniland, a region where the London-based energy giant has faced decadeslong local pushback to its oil exploration.
While spills are frequent in the region due to vandalism from oil thieves and a lack of maintenance to pipelines, according to the U.N. Environmental Program, activists call this spill that began June 11 a "major one."
It is “one of the worst in the last 16 years in Ogoniland,” said Fyneface Dumnamene, an environmental activist whose non-profit monitors spills in the Delta region.
He said tides have sent oil sheens about 10 kilometers (6 miles) further to creeks near the nation’s oil business capital, Port Harcourt.
Shell stopped production in Ogoniland more than 20 years ago amid deadly unrest from residents protesting environmental damage, but the Trans-Niger Pipeline still sends crude from oil fields in other areas through the region’s communities to export terminals.
Africa’s largest economy overwhelmingly depends on the Niger Delta’s oil resources for its earnings, but pollution from that production has denied residents access to clean water, hurt farming and fishing, and heightened the risk of violence, activists say.
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